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Professor Andrea Guariso Publishes in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Professor Andrea Guariso, with M Björkman (SSE), J Svensson (SU), and D Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich), has published the paper titled "Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda" in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
TRiSS Director to lead Irish participation in EU energy project
Economist, Professor Eleanor Denny will lead the Irish participation in a large European Commission Horizon 2020 project on decentralised energy production and greater social participation in energy supply which has just been awarded €2.5 million.
Dr. Sarah O Brien, CELLT Director and Assistant Professor in the Centre for Languages, Speech and Communications Studies, will partner with a team of professors from Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro) in a CAPES PRINT funded project . This ground-breaking study explores multilingualism, linguistic rights and social inequality. The project aims at developing international research collaboration so as to reflect on language inequalities at a global level.
Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy
A blog from Professor Colette Murphys on Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy featured in the British Educational Research Association (BERA) website.
Research led by Prof Layte finds stark socio economic inequalities linked to childrens BMI
The research led by Prof Layte,found that children from primary educated backgrounds were more likely to be overweight or obese at any age, compared with children whose mothers had a tertiary-level education.